Griffin Berlstein
Doctoral Student at Cornell University
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGriffin Berlstein is a PhD candidate in computer science at Cornell University with nine years of experience building tools for hardware-oriented programming languages and a background that spans undergraduate research and industry internships including a hardware engineering role at OctoAI (acquired by NVIDIA). He combines deep academic research with practical engineering, focusing on toolchains that make hardware design more programmable and accessible. Based in Ithaca, Griffin has taught and mentored students at Vassar and contributed to research projects since his undergraduate years, bringing an educator’s clarity to complex systems. Known among peers as an “all-around chaos vortex,” he pairs curiosity and playful creativity with rigorous systems thinking—seeking industry roles to translate his dissertation work into production-grade developer tooling. All project details and links are available at griffinberlste.in.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Vassar CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (33)
accelerator10
intermediate10
hardware10
intermediate-language10
compiler10
javascript9
opencl9
cpu9
gpu9
metal9
vulkan8
deep-learning8
compiler-construction8
machine-learning8
gpu-programming8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
marquettecomputationalsocialscience/clusteredcrimemaps
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:59 commits, 1 PR, 55 pushes in 1 month
discriminationalgorithmic
EclecticGriffin/EclecticGriffin
Sep 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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